Friday, March 12, 2010

Hello, you fat useless monsters. I am busy this weekend so I have neither the time nor the inclination to do one of the rants you all love so much, but I have some things I wanted to share.

First: if any of you are not reading xkcdexplained, why aren't you? They are amusing and you will like them. FACT.

Second: do you hate us so much you want to complain about us in real time, via IRC? The good folks at #xkcd-sucks on Foonetic would like you to verbally abuse them. The link just there is an IRC link. This one is a link for those of you who don't have IRC clients. It uses Mibbit.

"Note: the pornographic females in the last panel of this strip have significantly more detailed hair than the scientist female (or nearly any other character in previous strips). This is due to the fact that the Author spent much more time drawing them, as he enjoys drawing women as sexual symbols more than as intellectual characters."

I have been browsing this channel, communicating with it's inhabitants, they were extremely rude, anti-semitic, used inappropriate language and were insulting me on a person level. They payed no attention to rationality, reason and had no respect for fellow humans.

I do not recommend you set foot in this IRC™ Channel, as it represents the moral decay in our society.

Was that... necessary, my good sir? Perhaps the Zing was a tad much, though I appreciate the reference. And for what noble cause are you campaigning, exactly?The GeoIP is an improvement, I guess, over the R2-D2 or Seismograph one, but it's not as funny or relevant as the Collatz one. Do you agree?Oh, and everything is an opinion, since you can't prove anything.

More seriously, I'm not sure how queasy I am that the sexually ultra-fucked-up Randall, who seems to be a member of the Joss Whedon School of Feminism, has taken it upon himself to write "this is what the female perspective is." Minority Warrior shit.

Kirk: It's not just Randall. EVERY SINGLE PERSON on the xkcd forums seems to have missed the fact that Porn for Women is a joke book. They're all talking about how the book plays into culutural stereotypes and how women should be empowered too and blah blah blah it is infuriating.

Not to mention that probably 90% of them are dudes saying they're totally into feminism because they think it will impress chicks.

Oh yeah and

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=57773#p2052994

"Ha ha! The alt text mentioned a TV show of which I am also particularly fond! Mentioning things I like is the pinnacle of humor!"

If he was speaking about male sexuality, even if it wasn't from a position of any kind of authority, at least Randall would have SOME kind of relevant perspective. Why, then, does he instead feel his views on FEMALE sexuality are of any importance?

From the forum:"Loves me some feminist xkcd. Course, I'm not quite sure what it means that a male author is speaking up on behalf of women here."Yea, pretty much.

Because it's entertaining? Who says we read it because it's informative? Xkcdexplained seems like a website similar to ours except that they don't rant (usually) about what makes the strip awful, they put a lot of effort in to trying to sound professional and explaining what the comic was about.

Then, of course, you get into the snarky "man, Munroe's dicking around again, and here's what we have to say about his most recent shenanigans"

What the hell is this?

Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.

Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.

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